Mqup imprint: 803 books
Transforming Conversations
Feminism and Education in Canada since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary, post-secondary, and adult education. In this volume, teachers,...
Trance Speakers
Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity....
Wildlife, Land, and People
A Century of Change in Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Encounters with wild animals are among the most significant relationships between humans and the natural world. Presenting a history of human interactions with wildlife in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan between 1870 and 1960, Wildlife, Land, and People examines the confrontations that led to diverse...
Behind Valkyrie
German Resistance to Hitler, Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
While the "Valkyrie" plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance. Behind Valkyrie collects documents, letters, and testimonies of Germans who fought Hitler from within, making many...
This Colossal Project
Building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part...
The Invisible Irish
Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In spite of the many historical studies of Irish Protestant migration to America in the eighteenth century, there is a noted lack of study in the transatlantic migration of Irish Protestants in the nineteenth century. The main hindrance in rectifying this gap has been finding a method with which to approach...
Gangs and Girls: Understanding Juvenile Prostitution
Understanding Juvenile Prostitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
They discuss how young men are drawn to gang life, how young girls become attracted and attached to the gang members who eventually sell them into prostitution, and why it is so hard to infiltrate and dismantle the distinct but interrelated worlds of the procurer, victim, and client. Rooted firmly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography,...
Leaving Christianity
Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald...
Building Jewish Roots
The Israel Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Building Jewish Roots offers an exploration of how participants build rich and varied Jewish identities through their experiences in Israel at the long-established Livnot U'Lehibanot program. Shapiro argues that Israel Experience Programs offer something vital to participants - the power to shape and choose their own Jewish identities.
The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada
A Comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec, 1980-2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Significant public investment and increased access to higher education lead to economic development - governments across the political and ideological spectrum believe this and have designed and implemented policy based on this understanding. The Development of Postsecondary Education Systems in Canada...
Rules and Unruliness
Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and...
The Cultivated Landscape
An Exploration of Art and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form.
Time and a Place
An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada’s “garden province” are appealing because they...